June 16, 2004 - Atari announced today they have shipped Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, a cinematic first-person shooter for the Xbox. The game straps players into the boots of one Frank Hayden, a Special Forces operative chosen to track down and destroy the 'Red Mercury,' a super deadly substance that, you guessed it, threatens the globe with total annihilation.

June 15, 2004 - Zombie is known more for promising titles than great games. Spec Ops is a perfect example -- a game that could have been great, but failed to be. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is, in essence, the latest version of Spec Ops, this time for Xbox, home of all things first-person shooter. Unfortunately, Shadow Ops continues the tradition as a game that will likely leave you thinking of "what could have been." While there are moments that are truly pleasing, there's also some serious AI problems, graphical ugliness, and odd design choices. While Shadow Ops is fun for the most part, it's a bit too flawed to be great. Better luck next time, gang.

May 27, 2004 - Atari wants you to know about its soon-to-be released Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, its action-packed first-person shooter that takes you on a wild, world-wide search for terrorists wielding the deadly Red Mercury, a potentially devastating WMD that you must put a stop to.

May 25, 2004 - In little more than two weeks, Atari's Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, the Zombie-developed first-person military shooter, will ship to retail stores across the nation. Atari's game is a visceral, action-packed FPS that brings gamers into tough, engaging combat scenarios using basic controls and game design, but constantly pushes engagement into the player's face with non-stop motion in the environments, bombs dropping from the skies, missile launchers and RPGs whizzing close by, and in short, an un-ending blizzard of combat.

May 21, 2004 - Atari announced today that Shadow Ops: Red Mercury has gone gold and is ready for mass production. The game is an intense, action oriented shooter with Hollywood production values including a THXR Game Certification for immersive audio.

May 3, 2004 - E3 is so close it's not just around the corner, it's turned the corner. This is the time when all those pesky embargoes begin to lift. Take Atari as a prime example, kicking off the week before E3 with a slew of games coming to the big show. Screens for over a dozen Atari games can be found by clicking the links below. Check back as we update with previews of many of these games throughout the day.

April 12, 2004 - We recently had a chance to meet up with Zombie and check out its upcoming FPS, Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. Zombie's president and lead designer, John Williamson, was on hand to show us around the game a bit, and he was kind enough to sit down and talk with us in front of a camera. Check out our video interview John and see what he has to say about Shadow Ops.

April 9, 2004 - Although you might not have heard of Zombie Entertainment, the Seattle, Wa.-based development house behind the upcoming first-person shooter on Xbox and PC has been making games for nearly 10 years now. Responsible for games such as the Russian-style art-project ZPG, Disney's Atlantis, the first two Spec-Ops games on PlayStation, Delta Force and one of Ubisoft's Rainbow Six games, the company with the winking demon face is putting the final touches on the hard-hitting Shadow ops: Red Mercury, a first-person shooter bent on giving your money's worth of action.

December 11, 2003 - Red Mercury is a semi-imaginary concept that would deliver all of the destructive power of a nuclear weapon but without all of that troublesome fallout to worry about. We say it's semi-imaginary because while nobody we know has ever seen it in action, Red Mercury has come up in far too many espionage books and conspiracy theory writings for it to be merely a product of some mad scientist's imagination. In Atari's Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, exclusive to the Xbox no less, you're a soldier faced with task of tracking down and eliminating forces threatening to get their hands on some of this stuff, hence the title. This first person shooter follows the playbook laid down by several games before it but there's Xbox Live compatibility to keep things interesting.